Barney Wcostream (2024)

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What did Barney go to jail for? ›

Another reason Barney had to go to jail is that he is a drug addict. Once, he was caught taking drugs in his Barney costume. Not only that, he was also convicted of storing the cocaine in his purple tail in Barney`s suit. He was also accused of giving drugs to children on the TV show Barney.

Despite being a famous '90s cartoon, Barney & Friends was finally discontinued after a raft of lawsuits filed by the program's makers as a consequence of violent video using the purple dinosaur started to surface.

Barney & Friends is an American children's television series that originally ran on PBS Kids from April 6, 1992, to November 2, 2010.

He is a 6 to 7-foot tall purple Tyrannosaurus Rex with a green tummy and green spots on his back and his tail and yellow toes who is two dinosaur years old. He comes to life through a child's imagination, springing up from a doll to full size.

The trailer for the two-part series shows Bob West, a Barney performer, recalling death threats he received as the purple dinosaur. “They were violent and explicit, death and dismemberment of my family,” he says. “They were gonna come and find me, and they were going to kill me.”

A powerful gust shoved Barney into a lamppost, ripping him open. As he flailed – his wound flapping horribly – the NYPD moved in with knives to bring the 58-foot dino down. Swarming on Barney's back like ants, the police did what they do best. They murdered him in public.

Barney & Friends is an American children's television series targeted at children aged 2–5, created by Sheryl Leach.

A diminutive of the male given names Barnabas, Barnaby, Bernard, or Barnett.

Did you know. As of this episode, Barney had slept with 282 women.

The series featured two future Disney Channel stars Selena Gomez (Gianna) and Demi Lovato (Angela). According to the episode "Happy Birthday, Barney!" Barney is two hundred million years old or two dinosaur years old.

Did Barney have a girlfriend? ›

Barney dates other women besides Thelma Lou (mainly, diner waitress Juanita, who is mentioned, but never seen or heard).

Unbeknownst to the company, Barney is secretly working for the FBI as an informant, with the intention of defeating his boss Greg Fisher, who stole his girlfriend, Shannon, many years ago. This explains why Barney wasn't arrested for many years for signing illegal contracts and papers, as blackmail for keeping his job.

In a surprising Where Are They Now update: actor David Joyner's career has transitioned from Barney & Friends to owning and operating a tantric massage practice.

Fifteen years would pass before the character was again reprised in the reunion film Return to Mayberry in 1986. By then, Fife had moved back and become the town's acting sheriff.